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Spirit comes to the believer when he yields wholly to “him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.” Many years ago I started in my car from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. I had a good car; the kind that com pels you to watch the speedometer, or the cop if you ex pect to keep out of trouble! It was a beautiful morning, and a splendid road, but I could get no speed. I did not know what was the matter with my engine. Finally, it Stopped and refused to go another foot. I had twelve gallons of good gasoline. I had plenty of oil. There was nothing wrong with the engine. I had a great desire to get on, but the thing would not go. Then I flagged a Standard Oil truck. The driver came to my assistance; he looked all over my car, and said, “There is nothing the matter with the car. You have plenty of gas. You have plenty of oil. Your spark plugs are clean. There is noth ing the matter with the car.” I said, “I know that. There is nothing the matter with this car, only it simply will not go !” Finally he took off the copper pipe that led from the gasoline to the engine and pumped out of that pipe a handful of dirt, sand and grease. Then he put the pipe back to its place, and said, “Now try it.” I started the car and passed everything on the road that day. What was
the matter ? Dirt had clogged the channel of power. The copper pipe was not yielded to the gasoline. Dear child of God, if the power of the Holy Spirit is not manifest in your life, it is not a sign that you have not the Holy Spirit, but a sign that the Holy Spirit has not all of you. The Holy Spirit is not divided. It is our hearts that are divided. A divided heart clogs the channel of power. I, like the term, “the yielding life,” rather than the term, “the yielded life.” A long time ago I yielded myself to the Holy Spirit, He came into my body and made of it a dwelling place, but how many times have I shut Him out of some of the rooms in the house! There needs to be a constant yielding to the Spirit in order that there may be victorious living. The yielding of yesterday will not do for today. The surrender of yesterday will not do for today. It is not a past experience that I need. It is a present experience of God’s power and grace. The great need of the church today is not that believers “tarry” for the Holy Spirit, but that believers “yield them selves unto God” in such complete abandonment of self that the Holy Spirit within them may not be hindered in His work of magnifying Jesus Christ.
Ghallenge us in finding others with whom the privileges of this work can be shared. The first step in this direction is the enlargement of the Society Membership, to make it truly national and in ternational in its scope. None but those whose Christian standards are known to be true to God and His Word will be invited. No sec tional or narrow denominational lines will be observed so long as there is clear loyalty to the truth. A beginning has been made in the enlarge ment of the circle of friends and supporters of the Institute by the recent election of two new members of the Board, the one residing in Philadelphia, Pa., and the other in Portland, Oregon. These men feel as many others are coming to do, that the Bible Institute of Los Angeles is a national asset. The Biola challenge is made to the many new friends who will be recruited in a campaign soon to be launched. Such an endowment of friends will be of greater value than an en dowment of dollars. Their prayers and Chris tian fellowship will lift and encourage, and Biola will go forward to new and larger things. More definite announcement concerning this matter will follow in our July issue.
C(s)iie V iolet HE Bible Institute of Los Angeles began nearly a quarter of a cen tury ago with a vision and a plan that made it unique among insti tutions of its kind. It sought to
build a school with a strong and well balanced curriculum and to give to its students practical training for Christian service in a many-sided evangelistic program. It has passed through years of testing and has not lost its original vision. But with the years the outlook and en vironment of the Institute have changed, and it must now enlarge its circle of Christian fel lowship in order to meet the new demands upon it. The name of the Institute has made it appear that it was distinctively a Los Angeles institu tion, supported entirely by local friends. In other parts of the country there has been a pas sive interest in the school, but very little prac tical support. It seems to have been the impression that the financial needs of- the school were met by endowments or by the gifts of a few rich friends. It is therefore proper at this time to explain that while the Institute was made possible through the generosity of a few who could give largely, it has not been, nor is it now, an endowed institution. There is need of many new friends, and it is proposed to ask old and tried friends to assist
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